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I Agree so much. Last friday, I got a new mac and installed Xamarin. I tried to activated a Trial version while I get my license sorted and it refused to activate. I tried again and again but without luck.

I contacted Xamarin support, he asked me to try offline support. Imagine I had to inform him that offline support is not supported for Trial activations while he argued it can be done.

I left it at that.

Monday morning, i dreaded the activation screen, but imagine my surprise when it activated on the first try without any glitches.

When I replied to the support guy, he informed me that they had run of trial activations on friday and thus the issue :O

Stuart - I apologize for the inconvenience. Once activated, your software SHOULD keep working forever. We do not require an internet connection to use Xamarin. This issue you found is a bug in our VS activation code which we were finally were able to track down today. It's as frustrating to me as it is to you that this kept cropping up.

Mohib - Sorry to hear about your experience. We're in the middle of a major project to overhaul our activation system and make it much more reliable. That should kill these issues dead!

Very much look forwards to trying the fix out. I may have been more vocal than most (now there's a surprise!), but I have seen and heard a lot of people expressing a lot of frustration over activation - so I hope this fix works and helps Xamarin grow to even more success :)

I love Xamarin - but constantly run into activation issues (I suppose I shouldn't use the alpha...)

It's a real shame as given it's an enterprise solution they probably shouldn't be so worried about this kind of thing. Enterprises normally have no problem paying for software that saves time. Wasting time with activation however is just crazy.